4 New African Cichlids Today

[tyyrlym]

Not feeing them will reduce the amount of ammonia they produce but it won't prevent it. As you can see even without feeding the ammonia is already 0.25 ppm. If I were you I'd already be planning on a 50% water change immediately. Depending on how quickly the ammonia is building up you might want to do daily 25% changes. I wouldn't let it get above 0.25 ppm personally.

 

[JenCliBee]

i have used stress zyme which is a beneficial bacteria starter

""corrected by RnW) lol..... some people just dont get that fish are living things and subject them 2 unsuitable conditions just because they cant be A***D 2 wait for a cycle 2 finish. yet ppl still try and help them out Y? he aint gonna listen



jen

 

[tyyrlym]

I try and help so the fish don't die. I suppose I could be a dick about it and not say anything and let the fish die to "teach him a lesson," but I don't think that's a very intelligent thing to do. Getting on your high horse and deciding to punish someone for not doing what you think they should do is more of the /b/ way of handling things.

The right thing to do is try and help him keep these fish alive and try to change his mind about things so that it doesn't happen again. Not helping is a good way to kill off these fish, a couple more batches, and potentially lose someone from the hobby. If you can get through to him and change his thinking you can wind up with another informed aquarist who will help spread the hobby rather than bad mouth it later. Do nothing and its guaranteed to turn out bad, do something and it could still turn out bad, but it might come out good. I'll take a 50/50 shot at making things better than a sure way to make it worse.

 

[rocknurworld2006]

i have used stress zyme which is a beneficial bacteria starter

Hmmmm!!!! no it's not!!!!! its a water dechlorinator..... some people just dont get that fish are living things and subject them 2 unsuitable conditions just because they cant be A***D 2 wait for a cycle 2 finish. yet ppl still try and help them out Y? he aint gonna listen



jen

stress zyme is not a dechorinater its just a heap of crap that is suppose to cycle your tank but it doesnt.
stress coat is the dechlorinator

 

[JenCliBee]

i have used stress zyme which is a beneficial bacteria starter

Hmmmm!!!! no it's not!!!!! its a water dechlorinator..... some people just dont get that fish are living things and subject them 2 unsuitable conditions just because they cant be A***D 2 wait for a cycle 2 finish. yet ppl still try and help them out Y? he aint gonna listen



jen

stress zyme is not a dechorinater its just a heap of crap that is suppose to cycle your tank but it doesnt.
stress coat is the dechlorinator

yeh m8 i relised aafter i typed it but i couldnt be arsed 2 change it lol yeh its crap by the way !!!

as 2 tyy comment i totally agree with u help because of the fish but.... when some1 makes the original post and says bollox 2 the fishless cycle then do u really wnt some 1 like this in the hobby , i understand ppl getting fish without the knowledge of a fishless cycle and probably given bad info by LFS but this guy new about fishless cycle and still decided 2 buy fish anyways, doesnt matter how much u help the OP has not mentioned anythink as far as i can see about doing water changes nor treating 4 a possible Ich outbreak just monitoring the situation so with hi attitude the likely hood of these fish surviving are pretty low ... so like u said 2 me before getting on ya high horse think about wot ur about 2 say before making comments suggesting ppl of been a dick and been unitelligent. u go ahead and help some 1 that new how the fish would suffer due 2 ammonia and blatently ignored all this!!!!


jen


EDITED: just 2 show u a comment l8r on in the day by the smae person!!!!! read it and then tell me if u still wanna help him

well i think you could be wrong about the discus not being compatible with african cichlids because its gills are still moving
and if they die so what i will just go out and buy some more i can get discus for £10 each so they either get tough quick or die quick
i might get a frontosa next but only after i try the discus one more time i think where i went wrong was only buying 2 discus and not putting enough plants in for them to hide from the oscar .
ps funnily enough its the oscar and not the piranah doing all the chasing

im gonna get 4 new discus at the weekend so that will be enough of them eh ?
if they die i will admit defeat and get a frontosa and a few tiger barbs because they are meant to be hardy fish .

 

[aaronnorth]

subscribe to photobucket then upload your image to your profile, then copy the link 'IMG Code' and paste it on here. You should buy fish that you havent researched properly - especially cichlids.

(i have done it yes but i payed the price, 2 of my fish got killed )